Word: origin
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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John L. Lewis once attempted to define the origin and nature of his power, his place in U. S. life. Said he in 1938, to the first constitutional convention of his C. I. O. : "After all I merely undertake to express and articulate in a public way the things that you say to me, the instructions that you impose upon me. ... If I fail to understand my instructions, if I fail to comprehend what you really mean in your resolves . . . my voice will be of no more value than the most humble citizen going about his obscure toil. . . . My strength...
...Spain and France there was no rejoicing, only a queer, unreal enthusiasm. Arriba of Madrid, the Falangist paper, tried to take consolation in a link of blood with ancient Germans. Basques, Asturians, Castilians, it said, "bear the unmistakable imprint of their Visigoth origin." In Paris, Le Temps's editorial writer cut a tiny gem of black futility: "There are days when it is difficult to write anything at all on any subject whatsoever...
...year-old head of the membership department, onetime reporter, city editor, bureau chief, told the story last week in a book titled AP-The Story of News.* An official history, assigned by AP, Author Gramling's volume nevertheless justified its subtitle. For the story went back to the origin of news-gathering in the U. S., told many a rousing anecdote of the press along...
...whispering campaign which had its origin among a group of Democratic businessmen in the South was set loose to crawl across the country. Some of the whispers: Willkie spends an hour every week having his hair marcelled. Willkie privately damns Labor...
...brassy dignity, an odd-looking contraption stood on the stage of Chicago's Orchestra Hall one night last week. It was a Schellenbaum (bell tree), an instrument of Moorish origin, looking like a brass Christmas tree hung with bells and horse tails. It is the only Schellenbaum owned by a U. S. orchestra. The Chicago Symphony, which got it as a gift from the late Composer Camille Saint-Saëns, trots it out rarely. But last week, when the Symphony began its soth season, its 36th under the still competent baton of stooped, white-haired old "Papa" Frederick...